COURSE SCHEDULE

In this class, we’ll be reading a variety of theoretical & historical texts. Additional reading suggestions (non-required reading) will be presented in class. We will also look closely at art projects that relate to these themes and URLs / documentation of these works will be distributed in advance of class discussion. This schedule is subject to change.

1.25 Introductions, overview of selected surveillance-related art projects

2.1 No Class

2.8 Reading: Panopticism, Chapter 3 of Michael Foucault's Discipline & Punish; "A Diagram of Panoptic Surveillance," Greg Elmer (Reader); review of Steve Mann's notes on equivalence

2.15 Readings: "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema," Laura Mulvey (Reader); Terrorvision: Panopticism in the Age of Totally Hidden Video, Mark Dery
Class visit: Marco Deseriis, to discuss Radars & Fences conference

2.22 No class (Make-up session: Course conference, 4/26)

2.29 Reading: Postscript on the Societies of Control, Gilles Deleuze; Recommended: The Information War, Hakim Bey

3.7 Class will meet off-site, at the Radars and Fences conference

3.14 Class visits: Tad Hirsch & Richard Pell (Institute for Applied Autonomy)
Reading: "Pleasure and the Panoptic Principle," Peter Weibel (Reader); "Big Brother, or, the Triumph of the Gaze over the Eye," Slavoj Zizek (Reader)

3.21 No class (Spring Break)

3.28 PROPOSALS DUE: Final projects (must be emailed prior to the beginning of class)
Class visits: Ed Giardina, Finishing School; Amy Alexander
Recommended Reading: Selections from Electronic Civil Disobedience, by Critical Art Ensemble (Reader)

4.4 Reading: "Jenni’s Room: Exhibitionism and Solitude," Victor Burgin (Reader);
Class visits: Aaron Gach (Center for Tactical Magic-TBC), Michael Mandiberg

4.11 Reading: "9/11, Synopticon, and Scopophilia: Watching and Being Watched," David Lyon (Reader); "Resisting Surveillance," David Lyon (Reader)

4.18

9:30-12:00 Make-up session

3:30-6:00pm Advanced case-study: Illegal Wiretaps
Readings: Selections from EFF's Hefting vs. At&T case resources

Class visit: Beka Economopolous and Jason Jones (Not An Alternative/ The Change You Want to See)

4.25 Last session on the floor. Summary readings and conference prep TBD.

4.26 (SATURDAY) Class conference at The Change You Want to See, Brooklyn, NY

5.2 No class (Make-up session: Course conference, 4/26)